Folder Copy Utility (Server 2003)

_Kaiser_

Hey all,

I need to copy a load of user folders/shares to an external drive and Windows native copy just isn't cutting it - fails because some of the files are too long, or in use and aborts the whole job.

I looked at XCopy and its GUI version and keep getting errors about the number of parameters i'm using, so is there a free utility out there that someone can recommend that'll do this for me?

Cheers!

CiaranC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy

techguy

CiaranC wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy

I second that.. Robocopy is absolutely excellent!!

Capt'n Midnight

only way to better robocopy for synchrinising would be to setup rsync , but that's a lot trickier and not worth the hassle unless you have no bandwidth

Rambo

Richcopy is what I use, Pro version of robocopy is it Free

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog

techguy

Rambo wrote: »

Richcopy is what I use, Pro version of robocopy is it Free

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog

Pro, eh??? I just have the Robocopy thats in some resource pack or something like that. Must check out pro now and see what i'm missing that I probably wouldn't ever use!:D